I like Dan Russell....he has been ripping Gillis and the Canucks management for quite a while now and to me it's fully deserved. Being a frustrated Canuck fan myself, I take some satisfaction knowing that others feel the same way. The Canucks, from the owner on down, deserve a beat down on a bunch of issues and they get it on AM 650.

Gallagher, early in the season, predicted that the big minutes played by the Sedins and Kesler would have a negative effect by mid season. It looks like he was right on, and I think this was one of Tort's biggest blunders this year - failing to appreciate how tough the travel is for western teams and overplaying his stars and underplaying his bottom 6.

Zedlee wrote:Gallagher, early in the season, predicted that the big minutes played by the Sedins and Kesler would have a negative effect by mid season. It looks like he was right on, and I think this was one of Tort's biggest blunders this year - failing to appreciate how tough the travel is for western teams and overplaying his stars and underplaying his bottom 6.

Henrik and Daniel both appear to have been seriously hampered by injuries, none of which (from what we can tell) had much to do with fatigue.

It's not like a less tired player wouldn't have been cross checked in the ribs halfway through a game..

In my opinion, the minutes = injuries thing is a bit of a red herring. Unless you can tell that injuries were directly correlated with fatigue or they happened in the last 5 minutes of game, it is useless to speculate.

But I do have a question for the faithful here, can anyone align the camps of writers and broadcasters for coach and GM bias.

There have been plenty of dumping-on-Torts columns lately, and I know there is a camp of AV loyalist (i.e. Kuzma). There are also Gillis supporters (i.e. Gallgaher), and there are even some Nonis people out there. Does anyone know the breakdown. Without knowing the built in bias, it is hard to tell whose being honest and whose just being Darren Dregger-like.

For example, there is no way in hell AV would have guided this sad sack team to the playoffs this season with the same injury situation. This team has not been offensive enough since early 2012, and only gotten worse with time.

Zedlee wrote:I like Dan Russell....he has been ripping Gillis and the Canucks management for quite a while now and to me it's fully deserved. Being a frustrated Canuck fan myself, I take some satisfaction knowing that others feel the same way. The Canucks, from the owner on down, deserve a beat down on a bunch of issues and they get it on AM 650.

Gallagher, early in the season, predicted that the big minutes played by the Sedins and Kesler would have a negative effect by mid season. It looks like he was right on, and I think this was one of Tort's biggest blunders this year - failing to appreciate how tough the travel is for western teams and overplaying his stars and underplaying his bottom 6.

Dan Russel is a pus filled fat lump of dog shit . He has hated the team for 15 years since he didn't get the pbp gig.

Every morning I check out on 1040 on my way to work in the hopes that something useful might get discussed. I'm routinely amazed to find that they often don't talk about sports at all. Admittedly, we're talking a very short commute, but still... it's supposed to be sports radio, is it not?

Jake might not be so bad as host if Pratt actually contributed something, but it's ALL filler. It's as if these guys just like hanging around the sports world. You could drop in on any coffee break in BC and get the same degree of insight. They don't seem to do any research, or try to formulate any original opinions, so why does anyone hire these guys? Ferraro is always a good listen. Crawford is really good too, especially when he gets into the details. That's what I want to hear about - details, tactical stuff, theory. Anybody can tell player X took a night off. What would be entertaining from talk radio would be some real analysis.

Rintoul was a hundred times better than this and he probably has some upside. Were his ratings that bad?

Zedlee wrote:I like Dan Russell....he has been ripping Gillis and the Canucks management for quite a while now and to me it's fully deserved. Being a frustrated Canuck fan myself, I take some satisfaction knowing that others feel the same way. The Canucks, from the owner on down, deserve a beat down on a bunch of issues and they get it on AM 650.

I think it's pretty desperate that you feel the need to advertise your show on internet message boards, Dan.

Patterson and Price seem to take particular glee in the team struggling. Like Russel they seem very bitter at the team . I don't expect cheerleading but I don't see the need to be so fucking smarmy and arrogant in slagging the Canucks. These idiots are too fucking stupid to actually research and find out why the team is the shits at the moment and instead just want to say i told you so and cut off any callers who argue with them.

Its a sad state of affairs when the morons trot out the same mouth breathers for callers day in and day out.

Troy from White RockHardy from the WackMaple Leaf DaveJohnny from Commercial Drive

Losers and fucktards one and all. I rarely listen to the station but when I do I hear the same 4 losers phoning in.

I would much rather listen to Rome and Patrick or even JT the Brick. Better guests, way better hosts and funnier callers. No idea how anyone could listen to 1040 or Russel for any length of timel with their Vancouver only content.